What blew my mind about Plex is how simple it was. I spent days and days fiddling with SageTV to get it pretty, cover art, organizing etc. With Plex, I installed it, pointed it at my library and BOOM, all done! I was in awe when I heard the theme music whenever I went into a TV show. (maybe I'm easy to please).2 things that bugs the life out of my about Plex. One is the rewind and FF functions. I have a 4 year old that likes to skip to her favorite parts of her movies and it's completely hit or miss with Plex, sometimes it does it, sometimes it just stops trying and sometimes it just resumes where it was before you tried to move. 2ndly, I have ongoing issues where particular movies won't play and I have to go onto the Plex server and refresh it there. Has happened more often that I consider acceptable.

Overall however it's a great product and Roku 3+Plex is a pretty awesome combination.

Looks like plex (for plexpass subscribers for now) will be available on XboxOne now, and 360 soon.

This is pretty good news at least for me. Currently in the basement, I have a small HTPC which is really just for Netflix and Plex playback. That I have a 360 there (and likely a ONE at some point).. that it would likely remove the need for the HTPC.

nice. we use plex pretty much every day here, even moreso as music support gets better

being able to have an officially supported live tv option would be great. I really briefly had everything working like that with media portal, but it's syncing of watched media was pretty kludgy and problematic

I am a long time Plex user. Manages libraries well and it passes the ease of use test in that most in the family can stream content when they want.

We run the Plex Media server on a large Ubuntu box with an i7 CPU and 6TB of storage. It serves up all our media - FLAC music and DVD rips. All high quality files.

We distribute video through either the native Plex app on LG TV's or using the Android/iOS app to a Chromecast.

For streaming music, I have moved to RasPlex which is a small linux distro that runs on the Raspberry Pi. We have two of these that just plug into existing music systems. Both have add-on boards from HifiBerry (DAC+ and Digi+) to bypass the sound system on the RPi. Excellent results. These run 'headless' and are controlled by the same Android/iOS apps. They show up on the list of Chromecasts. The Plex app is great on both Android and iOS.

I am interested to play with the integration of the HDHomerun. I missed this somehow.

One big feature I would love is if the Plex server could serve the same music content to multiple destinations in sync - giving me multi-room audio.

I am a long time Plex user. Manages libraries well and it passes the ease of use test in that most in the family can stream content when they want.

We run the Plex Media server on a large Ubuntu box with an i7 CPU and 6TB of storage. It serves up all our media - FLAC music and DVD rips. All high quality files.

We distribute video through either the native Plex app on LG TV's or using the Android/iOS app to a Chromecast.

For streaming music, I have moved to RasPlex which is a small linux distro that runs on the Raspberry Pi. We have two of these that just plug into existing music systems. Both have add-on boards from HifiBerry (DAC+ and Digi+) to bypass the sound system on the RPi. Excellent results. These run 'headless' and are controlled by the same Android/iOS apps. They show up on the list of Chromecasts. The Plex app is great on both Android and iOS.

I am interested to play with the integration of the HDHomerun. I missed this somehow.

One big feature I would love is if the Plex server could serve the same music content to multiple destinations in sync - giving me multi-room audio.

Thanks.

I am using Logitech media server and PiCoreplayer on my raspberry pi with Hifiberry for music for the fact it can sync . It would be nice to have Plex players sync but until that time I have decided to run my music as a separate server.

Have you done a sound test for the difference between Picoreplayer and Rasplex? I might have to find some time to try and compare.

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